Nordic Art Agency Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

The 12th edition of the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm will be opening its doors on October 2nd - Sunday 6th October.  Over 60 handpicked local and international galleries will be exhibiting 1000s of contemporary art works.

The Spotlight section is back again at the art fair with a focus on how to decorate your home with art.  With the theme of ‘Homes is where the Art is’ 1 interior designer and 2 galleries have been selected to create spotlight stands for the fair.

On this podcast episode, podcast host Juliet is in conversation with Interior Designer and colour expert Sara Garanty and TAKEAWAY@ Galleri Duerr founder Deborah Duerr who are both creating their own Spotlight gallery spaces.

The Affordable Art Fair Stockholm will be held from the 2 - 6th October in Nacka Strand and here you can find full details of the fair event and tickets.

Find out more about Galleri Duerr and follow them on instagram.  Discover more Sara Garanty and follow her on instagram. Connect with the Nordic Art Agency by visiting nordicartagency.com.

On this episode Juliet is in conversation with Swedish wildlife artist Per Ekros. 
Always fascinated by faces, expressions and bodies, animals are an intrinsic part of Per Ekros's life, and they form naturally and intuitively as the subject matter of his artworks. His heart lies within the animal kingdom and our consumption of their environments, which impacts him deeply and the psychology of this is a reflection of this.

The podcast discusses his series of polar bear portraits from the 2021 series The King without a Kingdom and how Per captures emotional response through his selection of material and media.  His approach to a reductive painting style enables the characterisation of his chosen animal to be simplified within the composition which  provides an emotional intensity in his painting.

Current works from the To The Ark series are exhibited at the Nordic Art Agency gallery during the Summer Exhibition and a solo exhibition of Per Ekros's painting will be held in the gallery from September 21st - November 16th 2024.

A  new gallery concept is emerging in London's Soho with a focus purely on music art. This reflects the emergence of an increasing demand for art either created by musicians or which reflects music as a direct inspiration.

Film maker, award winning cinema owner, composer and musician Tom Lawes has a passion for instruments, primarily guitars and pianos, and a unique vision to exhibit bespoke and limited edition instruments alongside original artworks, limited edition and photography. His gallery Muphoria was born out of his passion for music, beautifully crafted instruments and a personal entrepreneurial approach to business.

Together with his team of other music enthusiasts and art experts he launched Muphoria, the first music art gallery on December 1st with a curated exhibition by many artists in many different mediums and fine art instruments.  Tom joins Juliet on this episode to discuss the gallery concept and his approach to custom made editions.

You can follow Muphoria on instagram as this very unique music art gallery evolves.

Swedish fibre artist Mia Hultgren studied at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (BA) in Copenhagen and later at the Royal College of Art (MA) in London. 

Mia Hultgren was invited to be the first Artist in Residence at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in the autumn of 2023.  On this episode host Juliet discusses how Mia's initial visual intention towards the project evolved, how her creative practice has been informed during the residency and how the interaction with gallery visitors has impacted her approach to the new body of works.

The current solo exhibition ASPECTS by Mia Hultgren includes all of the fiber art pieces created  during this intense two month residency period of the Artist Residency.  This includes ten small abstract framed portraits Secret Meetings  and 18 individual Lacuna pieces.  In addition. Mia created three larger more geometric works called Connections and some small circular suspended works.

ASPECTS is open at the Nordic Art Agency gallery until December 2nd and the digital exhibition catalogue can be view online.

You can follow Mia Hultgren on Instagram 

On this podcast episode Juliet is joined by British paper and written text artist Caroline Attan.   Her works are instantly intriguing and striking using organic visual representations in order to merge folded paper with poetry, paradox and metaphors. The concepts and compositions in her artworks collide as coloured, patterned and folded structures, together create a woven and textual narrative.

Her picture mainly consists of dense circular composition of folded shapes rotating along side, and above hand written poetry. Caroline frequently selects extracts from  Latin American poetry, which is where the cultural significance comes into play.  This is reflected in context and language the elements of the poetry are interpreted through colour, form and rhythm. Her works also utilizes literary extracts by authors such as James Joyce to inspire her compositions.

A series of works by Caroline Attan are currently included in the exhibition CLAY, INK, PAPER at the Nordic Art Agency gallery.  You can view all works online in the digital exhibition catalogue.

Caroline Attan is represented exclusively in Scandinavia by the Nordic Art Agency and you can follow her on account instagram.

On this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast host Juliet is joined by Rosie O’Connor the Co-Curator at Frameless, London's first permanent digital immersive arts experience. Frameless opened in September 2022 in the heart of London’s West End cultural district. 

As the biggest digital immersive arts experience of its kind in the UK, Frameless is a new art landmark destination, bringing art to life like never before.  So after almost a year of opening it's doors with a 4K multi-genre and multi-artist experience, featuring iconic masterpieces from the likes of Cezanne, Kandinsky, Monet, Canaletto, Rembrandt and Klimt how has this new immersive art experienced been received and what place does it take in the museum and gallery world?

Rosie O'Connor who studied Art History and Visual Culture and has a special interest in British Modernism, museology and accessibility in the arts gives us her take on the evolution and future of the immersive art experience.

TOGETHER / APART  is a solo exhibition of collaborative photography by Natalie Christensen and Jim Eyre who join Juliet on this podcast episode from their studios in England and New Mexico.   The composite images which feature in the exhibition are of surreal cityscapes embodying the disquieting experience of how our lives were transformed by the ravages of COVID-19.

Expanding on their earlier collaborative  work ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES, Christensen and Eyre are again combining photographs from their respective communities and responding to the experience of leaving behind our former lives and participating in a global effort to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

Architectural fragments and elements of the landscape are mingled to present diverse psychological experiences of this new world experience of  shock, loneliness, yearning and fear.

This podcast explores their unique creative collaboration and how their practice evolved during the global pandemic. 

TOGETHER / APARTwill be exhibited at the Nordic Art Agency until August 31st 2023 and the complete digital exhibition catalogue can be now online. 

You can find Natalie Christensen and Jim Eyre on instagram where you can see more examples of their work.

British visual artist Rupert Hartley trained originally in printed textile design at the Glasgow School of Art and later went on to take his MA in Art in Architecture at University of East London.  A constant in his work has been an exploration of architecture and city space and the  ‘the simulated environments and psychogeographies’.

The grid or square blocks and stripes are the formulaic language which dominates much of his work along side his commitment to colour, layering of paint and mixed media. Rupert works on a varied selection of ground materials including cardboard, repurposed fabrics and stretch and unstretched canvas.

Rupert Hartley's solo exhibition Inter - Scenic launches at the Nordic Art Agency on May 11, 2023.  This will be his first solo exhibition in Scandinavian. The complete digital exhibition catalogue will be published online and will be available to view from May 10th.

You can follow Rupert Hartley on Instagram or view his work on his artist page.

Saint has spent much of his career as a successful New York based photographers of iconic actors, musicians, athletes and fashion. The iconic images shot by Saint are a testament to his skill and understanding of the human form and this career has led to a constant revaluation and development of his photographic practices reimagining the role of lighting in photography by adapting techniques from scientific applications of flash and stroboscopics.

During his extensive career Saint has photographed actors and musicians such as Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Daniel Craig, Alesia Keys and Lady Gaga and athletes who are top of their game including Lebron James, Christiana Ronaldo and Serena Williams.

In 2018 there was a further shift in experimental techniques in photography which merged into an artistic practice using his photographic images as the basis of figurative, mixed media composite portraits and it is this which now dominates his creative focus.

This podcast gives an insight into Saint's development as an artist and painter and he discusses his the process and intention behind his most current body of work A Legacy of Light.

Saint will be exhibiting his new series at a gallery exhibition in New York this October and you can follow him on Instagram for all the latest news.

John Atherton is a Scottish screen print artist who studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.  He joins Juliet on this podcast conversation discussing his abstract portraiture process and the body of work he will exhibited in his first solo gallery exhibition in Sweden, Nostalgia of Distance, at the Nordic Art Agency.

The Vernissage of Nostalgia of Distance  will be held on March 23rd and a digital exhibition catalogue will be available to view online.  You can follow John Atherton on Instagram and view his own website.

John Atherton is a Guest Artist represented in the Scandinavia exclusively  by the Nordic Art Agency.